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SolarWinds Government Case Study

South Carolina K-12 Education Case Study

Introduction

This case study of an educational institution is based on an October 2019 survey of SolarWinds Government customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

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Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select SolarWinds Government:

  • IT challenges their agency faced prior to implementing SolarWinds products:
    • Lack of visibility into the problems leading to network performance or capacity issues
    • Lack of visibility into system/server health
    • Lack of visibility into application or database performance
    • The difficulty of determining whether a security incident occurred and what happened during the breach

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of SolarWinds Government that the surveyed organization uses:

  • Regular user in the following SolarWinds product areas:
    • Network management
    • Systems, applications, servers, and storage monitoring
  • Uses SolarWinds products across the whole organization
  • Agency use cases for leveraging SolarWinds products:
    • To monitor network performance
    • To troubleshoot network problems or outages
    • To resolve configuration issues
    • To monitor system/server health
    • To monitor application and database health

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with SolarWinds Government:

  • Results they were able to produce using SolarWinds products:
    • Correlate network, server, and application issues to resolve performance problems
    • Improve resolution rates for networking performance and capacity issues
    • Improve configuration management
    • Improve system and application monitoring and troubleshooting
    • Provide better service levels to the organization
    • Improve log tracking and management
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Network Configuration Manager
    • NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
    • Security Event Manager
  • Purchased their SolarWinds products because of:
    • Ease of use
    • Multi-vendor support
    • Experience with other SolarWinds products
    • Integration with other SolarWinds products
    • Best value
    • Scalability / Able to support our growth

Organization Profile

The organization featured in this case study asked to have its name publicly blinded because publicly endorsing vendors is against their policies.

TechValidate stands behind the authenticity of this data.

Industry:
Educational Institution

About SolarWinds Government

SolarWinds delivers powerful, affordable, and easy-to-use IT solutions to solutions to government and education to monitor and manage networks and systems, streamline support operations, and ensure security and compliance.

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Source: TechValidate survey of a Educational Institution
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  Published: Nov. 19, 2019   TVID: 6DA-099-6D3




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of SolarWinds by TechValidate.

TechValidate verifies the identity and organizational affiliation of all participants that contribute to published research data. When research participants so desire, we also guarantee their anonymity so that they may share information honestly and freely.


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